Life in the fast lane--where's the on ramp?

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Sunday, March 3, 2013

Trucked

Son Joe bought a new Ford F150 four-door with all the bells and whistles. There's something called blue tooth that allows him to dial up people and make phone calls using voice commands. Kinda reminds me of the old Star Trek programs when Jean Luc Picard would say "Earl Gray. Hot." Joe is having a... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, February 25, 2013

Numbers

I admit it, I count things. How many steps from the front door to the car. How many miles from here to there. How many eggs left in the carton. How many squares of chocolate in the package. How much snow and ice still on the sidewalk - in inches. Didn't get myself out to the garage to bring in the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, February 24, 2013

Old poem for the new day

Regretful Egret A regretful egret flew to Jung sat on an Egyptian scroll and said he’d had a dream that he’d danced with a beautiful woman a woman in red, perfumed and sung about by poets renowned for glorious words who spread her palms and said she’d had a dream that she’d danced with a handsome... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, February 23, 2013

Items from a Writer's toolbox...

I wrote a historical novel about Miss Eloise the schoolmarm who doubled as a soiled dove saloon hostess while she gathered info, formed a gang and prepared to rob the bank. Her antagonist was the Marshal, Ben - a bulldog of a man who wasn't about to let her get away with it. In the first scene Ben... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, February 22, 2013

On The Job: 1960

I was one of the first half-dozen women hired at the college when SIU-e took over the former Shurtleff College campus in Alton in 1960. My job title was Secretary III, and I worked in the Physical Plant department. Physical Plant is where the custodians, carpenters, plumbers, electricians,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, February 21, 2013

About the weather

I guess I'd better get to the store for eggs and cranberry juice before the weather hits. For some reason our News Channel 4 has sent a weather crew out to the suburbs. Not the St. Louis suburbs - the Kansas City suburbs. Yesterday they reported from Manhattan and this morning about 4:30 from... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Bad weather coming

The weather man is tracking a couple of merging systems moving out of three directions, a cold front from up Canada way, a warm humid low coming up from the Gulf of Mexico and a third system coming straight west from California. Those of us in the middle of the country, who've dodged "the big one"... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Readers Digest is filing for bankruptcy...

Its very title has been part of our lexicon. As in, do you want the full story or the Reader's Digest version? More and more often, we're looking for the shorthand, the fast facts. Our once powerful attention span has shrunk to the point we'll zap off to the next thing if a page onscreen takes more... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, February 18, 2013

Life is but a dream

In this vivid dream I'm in the triage area, sent there by the old doc who'd done my gall bladder. He's dropped his other surgical practice and is dealing only with gynecology and breast cancer, so I am here to see the new surgeon. There's some debate going on about which arm to start my IV, and I'm... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, February 17, 2013

Did I Tell You About Harry?

Fifty years ago he played trumpet in a dance band, made the circuit around this neck of the woods. His folks owned property, farmed, raised horses, so he had the luxury of time to learn the music, no need to take an after-school job to help out with the family budget. Harry was like musicians the... Sign in to see full entry.

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